UK's richest beauty entrepreneurs revealed - here's who made the list

The beauty industry's power players have been ranked, with Charlotte Tilbury topping a list of the 30 richest beauty entrepreneurs in the UK.

The entries of The Sunday Times’s inaugural Beauty Rich List have built their wealth from products and services ranging from skincare and hair salons to false eyelashes and tanning shops.

With an estimated fortune of £350 million, Tilbury first rose to fame working as a makeup artist with 90s supermodels Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, as well as a number of Hollywood A-Listers.

Frustrated by the quality of beauty products in the industry, she launched her own eponymous cosmetics brand in 2013. Now worth more than £1 billion, the popular brand has experienced rapid growth and employs over 2,800 people.

Second on the Beauty Rich List is Mark and Mo Constantine, founders of Lush, with an estimated wealth of £249 million.

Another multi-millionaire in the top 30 beauty entrepreneurs is haircare mogul John Frieda, famed for his Frizz-Ease range, and who boasts an estimated fortune of £150 million.

Former Apprentice candidate Susie Ma has also made the list. Despite coming in third place on the show, Lord Alan Sugar still invested in her vegan-friendly skincare brand, Tropic Skincare. She is said to now be worth £73 million.

Presenter of the Noughties makeover show What Not to Wear, Trinny Woodall is another well-known figure on the list. Woodall launched Trinny London in 2017 and has earned herself an estimated wealth of £54 million.

Meanwhile, Jo Malone, a name synonymous with luxury candles and fragrances, and the founder of Jo Malone London and Jo Loves, is valued at £15 million.

In total, the 30 entries on The Sunday Times' Beauty Rich List boast a combined estimated wealth of £2.174 billion.

It features 19 women and 14 men, with ages spanning from 27-year-old Darcy Laceby, co-founder of Absolute Collagen, to 84-year-old Mike Harris of The Belgravia Clinic.

The entrepreneurs on the Beauty Rich List include:

1. Charlotte Tilbury – Charlotte Tilbury (£350m)
2. Mark and Mo Constantine – Lush (£249m)
3. Sanjay Vadera – The Fragrance Shop (£240m)
4. John Frieda – John Frieda (£150m)
5. Vishal Karia – Affinity Fragrances (£114m)
6. Elliot Isaacs – Medik8 (£100m
7. Sacha Mascolo-Tarbuck and family – Toni & Guy (£100m)
8. Paige Williams – P. Louise (£100m)
9. Susie Ma – Tropic Skincare (£73m)
10. Daisy Kalnina – The Gel Bottle (£70m)
11. Frank Taylor and family – Indigo Sun (£64m)
12. Trinny Woodall – Trinny London (£54m)
13. Jenna Meek – Refy (£52m)
14. Susan Harmsworth – ESPA (£50m)
15. Martin and Gavin Rae – Cloud Nine (£50m)
16. Jess Hunt – Refy (£46m)
17. Mike Harris and family – The Belgravia Clinic (£42m)
18. Maxine and Darcy Laceby – Absolute Collagen (£34m)
19. Elliott Barton – Tatti Lashes (£32m)
20. Charlotte Tiplady – Tatti Lashes (£32m)
21. Georgie Cleeve and family – Oskia (£28m)
22. Nicola Elliott – Neom (£25m)
23. Oliver Meynell and family – Neom (£25m)
24. Mark Curry – The Inkey List (£17m)
25. Jamie Genevieve – Vieve (£15m)
26. Jo Malone – Jo Malone London (£15m)
27. Freddy Ward – Wild (£15m)
28. Colette Laxton – The Inkey List (£12m)
29. Ama Amo-Agyei – Plantmade (£10m)
30. Charles Bowes-Lyon – Wild (£10m)

Robert Watts, compiler of the list, said: "There are so many inspiring people with rags to riches stories here. Our Beauty List includes someone who came to the UK as a child refugee, another who was homeless and camping in woodland during his teens.

"There are others who left school with few or no qualifications to their name, one who was expelled. We have entries who suffered hair loss and very serious skin conditions that led them to create their own treatments which they later started to sell.

"All these people went on to build successful beauty brands making products people love, creating jobs, contributing decent sums to the public finances and of course making many of us look and feel a lot better along the way."